Caper, November 1964
Last week I suggested doing a column called “cartoons that don't age well”. We've long retired the cliché of cavemen getting women by clubbing them on the head. I first thought the joke might be that he fucked someone to death, which I like better.
This also goes under the sub-division of “cartoons that don't age well”. I guess it's that sixty years ago, the idea of a woman being in the military was considered absurd.
Ace, January 1964
Presumably a narrator is saying this and not any of the characters as is the norm. The caption sounds more like a set-up for a cartoon or an explanation of one. It would be like a cartoon having the caption “she married him for his money” or “these people are having sex”.
Update:People have pointed out he has a key in his ear. Because of the printing, I thought it was a girl and that was a braid. Okay.
Is she not wearing a skirt or does she just have really tight pants? This would probably work better in color.
Fun House, February 1980
Which one's the clerk and which one is the customer?
Cartoon #2:
ReplyDeleteOn an unrelated note, Jack O'Brien was arrested in 1970 for "possessing and printing obscene and pornographic publications".
Regarding the Stag cartoon from 1941, I'm assuming the gag is with all the running water, he has to run off to the gents room to relieve himself.
ReplyDeleteThese are fascinating. I love guessing!
ReplyDeleteMan to Man: the usual expression is 'I just had to buy it', but since she's married to a con (check the haircut), she's swiping it instead.
Army/Navy Fun Parade: he's not lost; it will be his berth if she invites him in for the night. (Overnight trains often have sleeper cars but I guess that was a lot more common in the 50s.)
Fun House: off by a hair i.e. off by a pubic hair. But I'm guessing neither are clerk/customer, he's just a bored husband.
Playgirl: I don't think there's anything to get here; the wife just wants new clothes because she feels she has none when viewing a woman without any either. It's sexist because the woman is treated like a pavlovian dog, and it doesn't really work as a joke either.